Method for Displaying Caller Information of Portable Device

• US 20090176484A1
• Filed: 05/23/2007
• Published: 07/09/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 05/25/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: KT Corporation
• Original Assignee: KT Tech, Inc. (KT Corporation)
• Inventors: Lee, Su-Seon
• Granted Patent: US 8,116,745 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/415
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/27453 Directories allowing storage of additional subscriber data, e.g. metadata
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/27457 Management thereof, e.g. manual editing of data
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/575 Means for retrieving and displaying personal data about calling party

Abstract

A method of displaying a caller information in a portable device includes setting up an item of the caller information of each caller, and displaying the caller information based on the set item of the caller information of a caller corresponding to a phone number of the caller when the portable device receives an incoming call. Accordingly, caller information desired by the user of the portable device may be displayed, and thus various and personalized caller information may be displayed.

Claims

1. A method of displaying a caller information in a portable device, comprising:

setting up an item of the caller information of each caller; and

displaying the caller information based on the set item of the caller information of a caller corresponding to a phone number of the caller when the portable device receives an incoming call.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the setting up an item of the caller information of each caller includes:

setting up a type of the each caller; and

setting up the item of the caller information for the set type of the each caller.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the type includes at least one of a group type and an individual type.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the caller information includes a caller information inputted by a user, a history of incoming call and an incoming/outgoing SMS messages of the portable device.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the displaying the caller information based on the set item of the caller information of a caller corresponding to a phone number of the caller when the portable device receives an incoming call includes:

searching for the caller corresponding to the phone number of the caller in database when the portable device receives the incoming call; and

displaying the caller information corresponding to the phone number of the caller based on the set item of the caller information corresponding to the searched caller.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the caller information is stored in at least one of the portable device and an external server device.

7. The method of claim 1, further comprising updating the database after displaying the caller information.

8. A method of displaying a caller information of a portable device, comprising:

extracting a type of a caller from the caller information corresponding to a phone number of the caller when the portable device receives an incoming call; and

displaying the caller information corresponding to the phone number based on a manner of displaying the caller information corresponding to the type of the caller.

9. The method of claim 8, wherein the type includes at least one of a group type and an individual type.

10. The method of claim 8, wherein the manner of displaying the caller information corresponding to the type of the caller is predetermined by a user of the portable device.

11. The method of claim 10, wherein the manner of displaying the caller information includes:

setting up a type of each caller; and

setting up an item of the caller information corresponding to the set type of the each caller.

12. The method of claim 8, wherein the extracting a type of a caller from the caller information corresponding to a phone number of the caller when the portable device receives an incoming call includes:

searching for the caller information corresponding to the phone number of the caller in a database when the portable device receives the incoming call; and

extracting the type of the caller in the caller information corresponding to the phone number of the caller in the database.

13. A method of displaying a caller information of a portable device, comprising:

setting up a type of each caller;

setting up an item of the caller information for the set type of the each caller; and

displaying the caller information corresponding to a phone number of a caller based on the set item of the caller information for the set type of the each caller.

14. The method of claim 13, wherein the setting up a type of each caller includes setting up at least one of a group type and an individual type.

15. The method of claim 14, wherein the setting up an item of the caller information includes setting up at least one of items of a caller information corresponding to the group type as the item of the caller information when the type of a caller belongs to the group type.

16. The method of claim 14, wherein the setting up an item of the caller information includes setting up at least one of items of a caller information corresponding to the individual type as the item of the caller information when the type of a caller belongs to the individual type.

17. A method of displaying a caller information of a portable device, comprising:

setting up a type of each caller by a user of the portable device; and

displaying the caller information corresponding to a phone number of a caller when the portable device receives an incoming call.